[terrajobst]

I fully share your concerns. I've expressed this problem with a homage to XKCD:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2014/12/04/introduci...

Don't think of .NET Standard as another .NET platform. Think of it as the standard that ties them all together. It's similar in spirit to POSIX. It's not another Unix, it's a way to write code that works on multiple Unixes.

[pja]

:)

As an aside, the content type for that URL is application/octet-stream, so Firefox won’t view the image but insists on downloading it. It needs to be image/png to be viewable in browser I believe.

[terrajobst]

Thanks, replaced with the link to my post. I'm clearly not a web guy ;-)

[pjmlp]

I think of POSIX as the actual C runtime.

[iamcreasy]

Isn't POSIX just a specification?

[pjmlp]

Yes, just like ANSI C is one.

The point being that ANSI C didn't took the rest of UNIX APIs to other OSes as part of the specification, but in the end most OSes that adopted C ended up having to support POSIX as well as a means to have some kind of usable C library common across OSes.